5/22/10
Teenage girls getting along and agreeing not to be catty? I don’t buy it…since it appears that someone is still angry enough to use telekinetic powers to launch that modern art statue into Cassie’s skull.
5/24/10
“Come out swinging” apparently means they strutted around the field in their fancy pants, nearly touching the bases!
“Hits a pellet” of course means absolutely nothing when it comes to baseball. Well, a Google search of “hit a pellet” baseball yields a whopping seven hits, so I guess somewhere, someone has said this before…But for comparison’s sake, Gil Thorp “head explodes” brings us 477 results. So I’m going to presume that Paul Diehl is actually flinging rabbit poop at the Jefferson Jeffs. Which is the same thing Neal Rubin flings at us each day.
5/25/10
Heh, this comic is so lame it’s causing Marty Moon’s face to collapse in on itself.
Jeff got a hit against the Jeffs, haha.
Stay in the coaches box Kaz!
Comment by billytheskink — May 25, 2010 @ 8:30 am
5/22: “Fine, but can we still give her the Linda Blair treatment?” “Of course. I didn’t say anything about broomsticks.”
The panels of 5/24 and 5/25 contain some of the dullest, most depressing examples of “sports action” I’ve ever seen. Solitary figures, clearly posed, no crowds, no actual baseballs. The most lively figure is the Jeffs’ speed-walker in 5/24 panel 1. That, by the way, was one of the penalties imposed on Jefferson High for recruiting violations: all Jeffs are banned from running for the 2010 season.
Comment by jvwalt — May 25, 2010 @ 9:19 am
So I’m going to presume that Paul Diehl is actually flinging rabbit poop at the Jefferson Jeffs. Which is the same thing Neal Rubin flings at us each day.
ROTFL…This is the kind of primo snarking I come here for each day…Now if the writers could start coming up with gems like this!
Comment by Rex Kwon Do — May 25, 2010 @ 9:24 am
The guy in panel 3, 5/24 is going to land flat on his face. He won’t be in position or condition to make a throw anywhere – well, maybe throw up.
Comment by dale — May 25, 2010 @ 10:48 am
LOL ya beat me to it, jvwalt!
Bryce looks like he’s ready to take offlike Superman.
Panel three: What in hell is Kaz talking about????
Comment by Regina — May 25, 2010 @ 11:28 am
5/24, Panel 1: Keep on truckin’!
Comment by sourbelly — May 25, 2010 @ 1:08 pm
Five of those seven (now nine, including this page and the TWIM main page) are not actually using the phrase “hit a pellet” about baseball. Two are referencing something about “when the lever was hit, a pellet dropped…” One is about a samurai chopping a baseball in half and one of the commenters saying saying something about hitting a pellet with a sword, and two are literally about hitting a pellet (rather than the metaphorical meaning in the comic).
I’m trying to figure out what it means to “hit a pellet.” One of the legitimate links on google is a reference to a home run to right field and the other is a reference to a long fly out to the right fielder. So, an near as I can figure out, an infielder should not be able to make a diving catch on a “pellet.”
Baseball has plenty of good lingo without needing to use obscure, made up stuff. “Frozen Rope” not good enough for you, Rubin? (My favorite baseball lingo is when “Uncle Charlie comes a-callin’”)
Comment by Wikitorix — May 25, 2010 @ 1:30 pm
I was hoping that we would at least get to see Marty’s plywood shack in today’s comic but instead all we get is Kaz and Jeff activating their wonder twin powers, one of the Jeffs pulling a Bill Buckner and Marty on the verge of passing out from a deadly combination of grain alcohol and gold paint fumes.
Comment by DieClambakeDie — May 25, 2010 @ 2:19 pm
Classic Gil Thorp! In panel 1, the fence is, what, four feet from the baseline? In panel 2, the palooka infielder is flat-footed and leaning backwards–how is he even standing up?–and Marty Moon blames a “bad hop”! Hope the official scorer calls it an error.
Richard
Comment by Richard — May 25, 2010 @ 2:52 pm
hey how come kaz doesnt wear a uniform he has to get to the bar that fast ???wheres steve whos gonna pickup that towel tossed at cassie some new drunk ,slug and creeper
Comment by mr120zcan — May 25, 2010 @ 4:03 pm
24 May, panel 2 the J batter is hitting left handed…
24 May, panel 3 Bryce must be playing 1B–he does not have the proper glove for 1B…
25 May, panel 1–the base is dislodged & not square w/foul line…
No reputable umpire would allow the game to continue…
Comment by rowdyman — May 25, 2010 @ 4:34 pm
And it looks like the authors may have semi “coined a phrase”…
Perhaps Junior Grif hit the first real pellet…
But if the number of uses grows exponentially, we heard it on Gil Thorpe first…
Remember the phrase “make no mistake” the number of citations pre “W” versus post “W”–as Casey Stengel used to say–LOOKITUP…
Or way back when–”perfectly clear”, “Read my lips”, “I don’t lie to the American people, I leave that to others”, or “an offer I could not refuse” etc….
Time will tell…..
Comment by rowdyman — May 25, 2010 @ 4:42 pm
I don’t think we’re going to change this. In Whigville, the fence is five feet from the baseline (who needs “foul territory?”) the infielders sit on their heels, and the coaches stand wherever the hell they want.
But “the pellet” actually was a widely used slang term in baseball, between the wars. But you didn’t HIT a pellet, you PITCHED one– it meant that the pitch was so hot you could barely see it. Cf “throwin’ aspirin.”
Comment by vaganova — May 25, 2010 @ 6:28 pm
If Kaz isn’t going to wear a uniform, he should have to wear a suit and a straw boater, ala Connie Mack. But, no, that would be way too difficult to draw. It’s much easier to grab an image of Kaz in street clothes from some other lame story line and paste him into this one.
Comment by J.D. Springer — May 25, 2010 @ 6:41 pm
#14 afraid you’re right, JD. Connie Mack was the only big league manager ever allowed to coach in civvies, and unless I’ve missed something, Kaz ain’t no Connie Mack. Near the end of Mack’s managing career (which began not long after he essentially invented the modern catcher’s stance) a veteran player got traded to the Athletics. Entering the clubhouse for the first time, the manager shouted “Hello, Connie!” to the manager. His new teammates quickly took him aside: “We address him as ‘Mr Mack,’” they explained…
Comment by vaganova — May 25, 2010 @ 7:03 pm
Whoah, sorry– the NEW PLAYER shouted “Hello, Connie!” to the manager.
Comment by vaganova — May 25, 2010 @ 7:05 pm
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